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$100M For Children “Learning Faster Than Ever Before” In Tennessee?!

February 12, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Tennessee lawmakers just signed off on a $100 Million program called Reading 360. Sixty million is federal Covid-19 relief money and $40 million federal grant money. What is this? Why Tennessee? Will other states follow? While the media bombards the public with learning loss warnings, this program is about acceleration. Fast-Track Here’s what the brochure […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Diversity, Featured, Popular Featured, Reading, Special Education, Teaching, Technology, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: Acceleration, home videos, K-12, Online, Partners, phonics, plug and play grow your own, Reading 360, reading crisis, Teacher training, Tennessee, Tutors, vendors tracking student progress

Why is Common Core’s Phonics Missing in Reading and Dyslexia Discussions?

June 22, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Those who claim teachers and their education schools have focused on the wrong way to teach reading never mention Common Core State Standards. But, since 2010, Common Core has figured prominently in the reading curriculum teachers have been forced to teach. If students are showing increased reading problems, shouldn’t the English Language Arts standards be […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Featured Tagged With: Common Core Phonics, Common Core State Standards (CCSS), dyslexia, phonics, privatization, reading, Reading: Foundational Skills, School Privatization

Laura Ingalls Wilder Meets Common Core

February 7, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 53 Comments

When I was a child, in 3rd grade, I fell in love with Little House in the Big Woods. I distinctly remember locating it in the little classroom library. I am not sure if I read it before or after Caddie Woodlawn, another fine chapter book about strong pioneer girls. There were no benchmarks—I don’t […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Laura Ingalls Wilder, reading

Common Core State Standards and Students with Autism—The Shoe Doesn’t Fit

January 23, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 24 Comments

Let me say up front, that I don’t think Common Core State Standards are shoes that fit any child, but the standards are especially insidious for students with disabilities, who were promised something different with the original Public Law 94-142. Recently I read an article in Teaching Exceptional Children from a year ago. It was entitled, “Meeting […]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: atypical children, Autism, Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Council for Exceptional Children, institutions, parents, Teaching Exceptional Children

How to Be a Nice Teacher When You’re Mad and Treated Badly

January 20, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

I wanted to write something that had to do with teachers in relationship to Martin Luther King Day and this is what I came up with. Teachers are genuinely nice people. If you work with children you teach them to be nice and respectful to others. Most people go into teaching because they are happy […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Teaching Tagged With: Common Core, MLK Day, Sandia Report, teachers

New Jersey, the Principalship and New Leaders for New Schools

January 19, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Who are New Leaders for New Schools? Education bloggers wrote fervently this weekend about the suspension of four principals in Newark, New Jersey who spoke out against the “One Newark” plan to reform schools http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/13/12/18/one-newark-reform-plan-proves-divisive-even-before-official-release/. The plan is similar to what is happening in cities across the country other than the fact that they have […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Teaching Tagged With: Cami Anderson, Common Core, New Jersey, New Leaders for New Schools, principals, rigor, school reform

STEM and Common Core—How Much SCIENCE are Elementary Students Really Getting?

January 9, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Even though students today, in reality, sound capable to tackle STEM jobs, what about the students of tomorrow? With the heavy push for high-stakes testing, the questionable negative rhetoric by the Obama Administration and others about STEM, and the dramatic changes to the curriculum with Common Core State Standards, is this country going to wake […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Technology Tagged With: Common Core, elementary school, science, STEM

Common Core and Ability Grouping—Ignoring Critical Questions

January 5, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Common Core does not honestly tackle a problem that should be front and center in our public schools. How do we address ability grouping? Should students with learning disabilities be educated separately or in the regular class? Do autistic children learn faster mainstreamed or with specialized help in a self-contained classroom or separate school? Are […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: ability grouping, Autism, class size, Common Core, detracking, gifted, learning disabilities, mainstreamed, self-contained classroom, separate school, social and cultural needs, tracking

Shunning Gifted Students in America—Isn’t it Time to Pay Attention?

January 2, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 31 Comments

All children are gifted one way or another. But because labels are still used to identify children, when I say gifted you immediately know I am referring to children who have high IQs. They intellectually function ahead of their peers on the bell-shaped curve—sometimes far ahead. They also might have learning disabilities along with being […]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: Accelerated Placement (AP), class size, Common Core, Council for Exceptional Children, credentialed gifted teachers, cut-off point, disadvantaged students, education policy, education reform, gifted associations, gifted programming, gifted students, high-stakes testing, Internation Baccalaureate (IB), IQ, lack of services, regular class, self-contained classes, states, twice exceptional

Misguided Education Reform

December 31, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

A nice thing that happened to me this past year was the publishing, back in July, of my book, Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students, by R & L Books (Rowman & Littlefield). It covers many of the same topics you will find on my blog. I discuss special education which might be […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: charter school buildings, Common Core, discipline, early childhood education, emotional disabilities, gifted, IDEA, learning disabilities, libraries, loss of the arts, Misguided Education Reform, PL 94-142, poor/unsafe school facilities, re-authorizations, reading, Reading First, special education, testing, Zero Tolerance

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dianeravitch Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈 @dianeravitch ·
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Voucher schools don’t have to comply with IDEA for kids with disabilities. They are allowed to discriminate for any reason or none at all. #schoolschoose https://twitter.com/KatieLikesBikes/status/1636446553429647376

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@Forrest4Trees @GregAbbott_TX No one is reporting that private schools don't have to adhere to the Federal IDEA act. Kids with #disabilities will be further harmed because #publicschools provide important services to #PWD and are essentially having their budgets cut in half by the voucher system.

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THIS is what learning looks like in #earlychildhood. #play #parenting #AskingWhatif https://twitter.com/DanWuori/status/1637786756727619584

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As babies explore cause and effect it’s not uncommon to see them test ideas over and over to see if the same thing happens each time. Watch this little guy studying the shadow he’s making on the rug. You’re seeing his brain make connections in real time.

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Reading Aloud to Kids of all ages pays off!

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I asked ChatGPT "Is the 'science of reading' settled science that determines how reading should be taught?" Here's the response. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/19/what-does-chatgpt-say-about-the-science-of-reading-it-may-surprise-you/

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I'm so proud to be endorsing @Brandon4Chicago! He's going to be the leader Chicago needs for this moment and I was so honored to be with him this weekend. Let's go!

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